His movies are so good, he has an adjective named after him. But which of these Alfred Hitchcock classics leaves you on edge? Read these contrasting arguments from the guys at
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Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 version of Vertigo, with James Stewart and Kim Novak, transformed the psychological twists of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's novel into a feat of visual invention that casts an inescapable shadow over this production.

From the middle-class mitherings of Brief Encounter to Alfred Hitchcock's murder-swap-thriller Strangers On A Train, it's hard to find a story set around a railway that doesn't feature new beginnings, crossed paths and chance encounters.

Making your mark on a story that's already been told is difficult. Especially when it has also been turned into a successful film by Alfred Hitchcock. But Giles Croft, who directs this new adaptation of Vertigo, is keen to distance Nottingham Playhouse's production from the 1958 movie.

Since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was released in 1960, the horror genre has produced video nasties, splatter flicks, slasher films, J-horror and torture porn. So can the relatively bloodless Psycho stand up against all that gore and misery?

A game which allowed Apple iPhone users to act out a stabbing routine with their handset has provoked anger. The ‘Slasher’ application could be downloaded from Apple’s apps store and installed on the hugely-popular phone by anyone. Downloaders of the programme can turn their phone into a pretend knife, with an image of a deadly […]

A signed exhibition catalogue by John Lennon sold for £25,000 A signed exhibition catalogue by John Lennon containing risqué sketches he drew of his wife Yoko Ono in the late 1960s have fetched £25,000 at auction. Lennon signed the catalogue for his exhibition entitled the Bag One for American journalist Sandra Shevey when she interviewed […]

Footage of Marilyn Monroe filming The Misfits sold for 60,000 dollars Candid footage of Marilyn Monroe on the set of her last completed film brought in 60,000 US dollars (£30,000) at an auction of movie memorabilia. The two reels of silent, 8mm colour film shot on the set of The Misfits had been expected to […]